Let’s Get It Right: Protect People From Pesticides

The men, women and children who harvest our nation's food have one of the highest rates of chemical exposures among all workers in the United States.

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2,4-D is a component of Agent Orange, the notorious defoliant manufactured by Monsanto and Dow. USDA proposes to allow farmers to plant 2,4-D resistant corn and soy wherever they please without any government oversight, and downplays any and all impacts.

"Essentially what you’re finding is that Monsanto and a few other companies are, to a very significant extent, controlling what people are eating—to a degree that I think many consumers don’t realize, because they don’t realize how much of the food they eat contains genetically engineered corn, or canola, or soy."